Quotes About Victory

Desert Storm was seen by the military establishment and by some politicians as avenging Vietnam, but it left behind dangerous illusions. The victory was so decisive, and information about it so carefully managed, that the American public was never clearly informed that it was purchased at the price of approximately 100,000 Iraqi lives.

In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.

I believe that the United States has no possible ability to pacify the Vietnamese people, win support for Thieu, win a political victory or a military victory in the air, on the ground, in the North or the South.

My love is upon you," he whispered…and she knew then that she had won.

I'm waging war, love. And the only way to win this kind of war is to make you want to lose.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Self-enrichment is that act of creating a thousand micro wins, so you can have one macro win.

It's not treason if you win.

God is all about life, not death. Death is his enemy's domain.

When the negative comes against her, she must B-E-A-T. Be, expand, arise, triumph. Be all that she was designed to be. Expand her vision of what is possible. Arise from every challenge stronger than before. Triumph over her own insecurity. This is what I always told my students.

I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.

Tooth and nail they worked. No one jostled for promotion. All this, they knew, was temporary. The point was to win the war and get back to their regularly scheduled lives.

There is more good than bad. Life and love win if you let them. If you believe in them.

For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple--not because the tree had suddenly laid hold upon some supernormal energy, but because its patient work of self-defense and self release had reached fulfillment. The long-imprisoned tree had freed itself. Nature had had her way.

That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over 60 feet of peanut brittle.

The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.

Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

Jim Brown will give you that leg and then take it away from you. Jim Taylor will give it to you and then ram it through your chest.

I'll beat this. I'm gonna beat this thing.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?